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created by Webster 1913

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:22:04

Na`ive`t'e" (?), n. [F. See Naive, and cf. Nativity.]

Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness; artlessness.

A story which pleases me by its naivet'e -- that is, by its unconscious ingenuousness. De Quincey.

 

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